The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-06-15
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4. TuRoUau THE STATE,


THROUGH TIE STATE.
Accidents and Incidents In West yirgini,
and Vicinity
An effort Ia being made bya number o
the young men Of Huntington to organic
o military company.
The Kingweod Argus has been sold I,
j. Ed. Kildaw, OF Grafton, for $500. Fl,
has taken hold and Is getting out u goot
paper. 1,tSib
John Godfrey, aged 60, gray md shak
ing with palsy, q reaident Of Upshu,
county, has a gill only fifteen years oil
for q wife. NGl
Tho Morgantown Post haa entered upon
tho twenty.fourth year Of its existence. II
Is better than ever and this fact Ia appre.
ciated rs shown by q liberal patronage,
Tho Moore6eld Examiner says that the
Memorial Association has bought dfty.two
tombstones at q cost OF oyor $500 for the
graves OF the Confederate dead at thai
place.
A crowd OF tougha visited the Baptist
church at Cherry Run, Taylor county.
They broke down the door, smashed the
building pretty generally. No cause ID
assigned for the outrage. :,
Hon. D. B. Lucas, OF Jefferson county.
will deliver tho annual address before the
literary aocietiea Of the GlenyilIe normal
school during the commencement exsr.
cises TO DO held there this week. slE
The Grecnbrier Independent hau com.
menCed iB tWenty.second year. In all the
time 1t has been published it has never
missed an issue. It 10 o .ataunch Demo.
cratic journal, edited with marked ability,
Bob Zsitzelberger, OF Raymond, Putnam
county, while handling o revolver, acct
dentally discharged the same, the ball
pasaing through The Jaw OF Claude Tucker,
aged 10. The ball carried With 1t several
teeth, extracted from tho jaw bone.
Tho Montana Coal Company, whose
mines are situated about five miles below
Fairmont, on the line Of the F., M P.
r. R., has recently purchased q tract OF
coal lying adjacent to It's mines and will
shortly erect about rs additional coke
ovens, making 100 in all.
Capt. Nelse Hoffman,, oditor Of the
Morgantown Post, had q severe attack of
paralysis last week. His left aido wcs par
ticularly affected. He walked with diff
iculty, and could use his left arm but it
tie, His speech was also affected. His
friends all over the State will hope to learn
OF his speedy recovery.
Fish Commissioner Baxter has placed
550 young carp in Salt Lick, in Biaxton
county. The fish were shipped from the
hatchery at Romney, with the loss of hut
q single one. II they prove a'success in
Salt Lick, Mr.. Baxter says lie will stock
Elk river next year with about 10, 1000, and
will also stock Little kanawhn and other
streams.
Peter Smith, a resident of Tyler county,
died suddenly q few days ago. Some par.
ties wero surveying in the vicinity, and,
on being informed that they were going
through his lands, he and his daughter
started hurrledly to the parties; when
within a few PAGES Of them he sunk to the
ground, remarking, I am worry Sick"
which was the last he spoke.
a fow days since nt Mt. Glare, Harrison
county, a man named Boyles hit Mont
freeman on the head with a stone and
mashed his skull until his brains oozed
out. The doctors took out a piece Of
skull two inchcB long by half an inch
wide. They say he has not n chGncsi in
O hundred to recover. It was Freeman's
father who recently cut a man by the
name Of Cottrell. 2I1
Hon. w. NJ. 0. Dawson, editor OF the
Preston county Journal, met with a severe
accident q few days since. Ha was up on
o ladder cleaning out the ~spouting when
he clipped and fell to the pavemsnt,' a dis.
tonco Of about Il or 10 feet, iractuting his
hip joint and bruising himself considera-
bly,. BE was carried into the house and
medical attention called. He is able to be
up q portion Of the time, and walks about
the DON on crutchea.
The St. Mary's Oracle says hat the
new oil well being put down about two
miles below that place has reached q
depth OF about Ave hundred feet. at the
depth Of two hundred feet q vein Of coal
eight feet thick was passed through, which
is said 10 be OF excellent quality. When
the drills had reached a depth of three
hundred feet, q vein of lead, eight feet In
thickness, was found. The ore is claimed
to be very rich, and quite largo Fragments
were brought to the surface and exam-
| ened.
Major E., A. Bennett, Of Huntington,
and others have purchased q tract of land
ct the mouth Of Little Guyan, in Macon
county, near the Jabell line, and willlay
it of In town lots. The new town will be
just half way between Huntington and
Point Pleacant, and being Immediately on
tho line OF the Ohio River Railroad, prom.
iRes to become quite a centre for business.
4 depot will be established there for the
benefit Of the trade up the Little (iuyan,
A large number Of lots have been epoksn
for and eeveral houses will be put up dur.
ing tho summer.
The White Sulphur Springs correspond.
ent Of the Greenbrier Independent, has the
following in one Of his letters: ""Mr,
Rials, OF Ohio, has a force OF men sinking
q chat on the Surber land, to test the
depth Of the Porcelain clay, which was
known to eaIst on these lands. The
quality OF this clay has been fully tried
and found to make very handsome ware,
and 1t Is only a'question Of quantity that
now remains to be testedin order to de.
eide whether a large and important man.
ufacturipg enterprise will spring up here
livery promising as to the material pros
perity OF our working people. MIR. Riala,
it is said, represents ample capital to give
the entcrp prize MI the "push" which the
prospects may indicate rs Likely to be
profitable" 81
Live Stock Notes.
American Agricultural.
Unlers there are trees in the pastures
put up temporary sheds Of poles, and roo
them with brush, for tho comfort OF thu
animals; also set up n few rubhing.posts
and provide %ealt.boxes in which they ma,